Newsletter 2 - Nov. 2009

PRACTICS... See Mobile See Practical!

Dear PRACTICS Newsletter Readers!

PRACTICS Infopoints, formally called Cultural Mobility Contact Points, CMCPs, are just about to start their second phase. In the past months PRACTICS partners have been working long days to conceptualize how PRACTICS Infopoints can in the best possible way answer the needs and questions there is about cross-border mobility.

In the common guidelines partners agreed that PRACTICS Infopoints will offer relevant and user-friendly information about mobility. Aim is to have the obstacles for crossing boarders as low as possible and access to high quality info as easy as possible. PRACTICS Infopoints inform and advise artists, cultural workers and operators and help them to deal successfully with administrative issues related to cross-border mobility.

In these days, on 1st of November 2009, Infopoints in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Wales are fully operational and ready to answer to your questions. If you want to know about regulatory issues, local job markets, country profiles, financing opportunities - just contact Infopoints!

Also please, bring forward mobility issues, questions, etc. to PRACTICS partners - we are eager to hear more. Make Culture Move!

Kunstenloket: Information and Consultat Sessions, Workshops, Telephone Helpline and tailor-made advice

For advice on business and legal issues, you can rely on Kunstenloket, a neutral contact point for anyone involved in artistic activity. We provide clear and personalised advice to professional artists, artists in training and amateurs. Managers and producers can call on us for expert information on the organisation of artistic activities.

Website www.kunstenloket.be provides answers to often-asked questions about social security status, taxation, royalties, management and organization of artistic productions... Furthermore, you can find on the website some model contracts and examples of administrative documents.

If you want more detailed information about these topics, you can participate in our monthly information sessions about practical and legal aspects of artistic work or our workshops on specific aspects of artistic activity. For an overview of planned sessions, please consult our website.

Not only is every discipline unique, but so too is every individual's specific situation. Therefore, we provide tailor-made practical and legal advice. Our consultants will answer all your questions via our telephone helpline.

For more complex issues, we organise regular consultation sessions in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, for which you should make an appointment by telephone. Our consultants will then reserve a whole hour to answer your personal queries. This service is free of charge.

Contact:
Kunstenloket vzw
Sainctelettesquare 19, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
t : +32 2 204 08 00
f : +32 2 204 08 09
e: info@kunstenloket.be
w: www.kunstenloket.be

PRACTICS moves - Public presentation in Torino, Italy

On September, 19th the PRACTICS partners took part to the ArtLab09 conference organised by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in Torino (Italy) and presented PRACTICS to the Italian audience during a workshop about cross-border cultural mobility, gathering for the first time Italian artists, operators and venues interested in the debate. A draft report of the workshop will soon be available on the PRACTICS website.

10. November 2009 Seminar on Social Security and taxation organised by Pearle* in Brussels, Belgium

PRACTICS project partner Pearle* is organising a seminar on social security and taxation in the context of mobility - Application of EU regulations and impact on performing arts organisations. Seminar takes place in Kaai theatre (Forum) in the address Square Sainctelette 19, Brussels, Belgium.

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Pearle*, Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe, is the European trade federation of Performing Arts organisations. Pearle* represents through its members associations almost 4,000 theatres, theatre production companies, orchestras and music ensembles, opera houses, ballet and dance companies, festivals, and other organisations within the performing arts sector across Europe.

Pearle*
Sainctelette Square 19/6, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
t: + 32 22 03 62 96
e: info@pearle.ws
w: www.pearle.ws

27.-29. November 2009 NEMO's Annual Meeting in Linz, Austria

Annual Meeting of NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations, will be held in Linz in cooperation with the Austrian Museums Association.

NEMO is associated partner in PRACTICS. NEMO is made up of museum organisations within the countries of the European Union (EU) as well as representatives from the countries associated with the EU.

Place of the meeting: State Gallery Linz, Museumstr. 14, 4010 Linz, Germany

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NEMO - The Network of European Museum Organisations
c/o German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund)
In der Halde 1, 14195 Berlin, Germany
t: +49 30 841095-17
e: office@ne-mo.org
w: www.ne-mo.org

10.-11. December 2009 Experts meeting - Mobility in the Visual Art Sector, Linz, Austria

The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) will organise an experts' meeting on the topic "mobility in the visual arts sector in Europe". Atelierhaus Salzamt hosts the meeting.

Place: Atelierhaus Salzamt, Obere Donaulände 15, 4020 Linz, Germany http://salzamt.linz.at

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The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK)
Wilhelmstr. 50, 10117 Berlin, Germany
t: + 49 30 23 45 76 66
e: art@igbk.de
w: www.igbk.de

11.-12. December 2009 Pearle* general assembly meeting in Stockholm, Sweden

PRACTICS will be presented in the general assembly meeting of Pearle* in Stockholm on 11.-12. December 2009. Meeting is hosted by Swedish Performing Arts (Svensk Scenkonst).

Swedish Performing Arts
Box 1778, 111 87 Stockholm, Sweden
t: + 46 84 40 83 70
e: info@ svenskscenkonst.se
w: www.svenskscenkonst.se

Pearle* www.pearle.ws

PRACTICS... the Project

PRACTICS is a 3-year project supported by the European Commission and started in December 2008. Its aim is to facilitate the provision of information about EU cross-border mobility in the cultural sector through the piloting of cultural mobility contact points called PRACTICS Infopoints.

PRACTICS... Update

The four Infopoints are fully operational from November 1st.

PRACTICS... One of Four

PRACTICS is one of four projects selected in autumn 2008 under the call for "Networking of existing structures supporting mobility in the cultural sectors". The other projects are E-Mobility led by Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (France), Changing Room led by Trans Europe Halles and co-organised by the Sibelius Academy (Finland) and Melkweg Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and SPACE led by ONDA (France).